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By: Google Blows $5M More Into Makani’s High Altitude Wind « Earth2Tech

Google Blows $5M More Into Makani’s High Altitude Wind « Earth2Tech — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:06:04 +0000

[...] garner more than $20 million for the Alameda, Calif.-based startup. The company had previously raised $10 million from Google in a series A round in [...]

By: Google Drills $10.25M into Geothermal « Earth2Tech

Google Drills $10.25M into Geothermal « Earth2Tech — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:57:25 +0000

[...] to expand its energy portfolio this summer. The green energy initiative started off last year with plays in wind, with stealthy Makani, and solar, with Bill Gross’s eSolar, and made mention of intentions to invest in geothermal. Then, earlier this summer, following [...]

By: electronrun.com » Blog Archive » Can the Desertec project provide the EU with green energy?

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:04:22 +0000

[...] 1-3 above have been successfully tested recently in Seville’s solar power tower project. Even Google has similar plans with its partner eSolar. If all goes smoothly it is a win-win situation that has [...]

By: Libertarian Girl » Blog Archive » The Death of HD-DVD– And Why We Should Not Subsidize Alternative Energy

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:48:53 +0000

[...] Unlike entrepreneurs, governments don’t have to look to the past to make accurate decisions about the future– they just have to look to the polls to see how to get elected this year. The government never would have recognized that two brothers who owned a bicycle shop in Ohio would be able to develop and build a flying airplane faster than anyone else, and why should we expect that the government can now figure out, in advance, who will create new environmental technologies and what exactly those should be? What environmentalists are trying to legislate is akin to the government of 100 years ago mandating what the design of the first airplane would be and who would build it– and they would not have been as successful, because only a free market of innovation could result in the Wright Brothers making their first plane. If the government was paying other people to create the kind of airplane the government had mandated would be able to fly, the Wright Brothers might never have tried to invent the plane in the first place. Perhaps we would have gotten a worse design for the first plane, much later. [...]

By: Google.org Grants Millions to Do-Gooders, $10M to eSolar « Earth2Tech

Google.org Grants Millions to Do-Gooders, $10M to eSolar « Earth2Tech — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:06:49 +0000

[...] eSolar hopes to improve upon solar thermal by designing scalable power plants with smaller heliostats — mirrors that track the sun’s rays, and reflect the light to boil water and produce steam that powers a turbine. The heliostats themselves are smaller than most being built for the market and each plant’s thermal towers have an array of heliostats. The design allows the solar power plant to be able to scale up to 500 MW from 25 MW. And the independent units can ensure that the entire array doesn’t go down if one unit hiccups. [...]

By: SolarReserve: Salty Solar Thermal « Earth2Tech

SolarReserve: Salty Solar Thermal « Earth2Tech — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:00:38 +0000

[...] making steam that in turn powers traditional steam turbines. (The picture above is from eSolar, the solar thermal company Google is partnering with for its “RE Less Than C” program, but uses a similar setup as SolarReserve’s [...]

By: Can the Desertec project provide the EU with green energy? « Electronrun

Can the Desertec project provide the EU with green energy? « Electronrun — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:44:06 +0000

By: GigaNET PM Headlines: Webisodes, Google Greens, OmniFocus - GigaOM

GigaNET PM Headlines: Webisodes, Google Greens, OmniFocus - GigaOM — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:37:09 +0000

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